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| Internet 2009 in numbers |
| Posted: mushroom @ Mon Jan 25, 2010 2:33 pm |
Some interesting numbers http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/01/22/internet-2009-in-numbers/
Near the bottom are some numbers for those still using Microsoft products
Malicious software
* 148,000 – New zombie computers created per day (used in botnets for sending spam, etc.)
* 2.6 million – Amount of malicious code threats at the start of 2009 (viruses, trojans, etc.)
* 921,143 ...
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| The great vendor hardware support debate rumbles on |
| Posted: jester @ Sat Jan 23, 2010 2:35 am |
TomsHardware has a piece by former MS Software Design Engineer Keith Curtis about the need for greater hardware support in linux by vendors:
An Intel engineer told me at a Linux conference that their Linux efforts are just 1% of the manpower that their Windows efforts receive. Doubling their Linux development team would cost less than .1% of their total R&D.
I thought it'd be interesting t...
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| Hey Ubuntu, Stop Making Linux Look Bad |
| Posted: Germ @ Fri Nov 06, 2009 11:51 am |
From Linux Magazine:
Ubuntu’s new Karmic Koala 9.10 release has been highly anticipated as the greatest release ever. In truth, it falls flat on its face in a time when Linux really needed to shine.
Christopher Smart
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
It’s the same old story. A new Ubuntu release, a new series of pain and frustration.
Canonical releases a new version of Ubuntu every 6 ...
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| Ex-MSFT Employee: Microsoft Should Run Linux |
| Posted: jester @ Fri Nov 06, 2009 9:19 am |
Articles like this are always conducive to incurring a good old-fashioned flame-fest - read the comments below for some classic knee-jerk responses from both sides
Could you imagine a Microsoft Linux?
Should Microsoft just give up the whole Windows business and switch over to a Linux codebase? A former Microsoft Research employee thinks so....
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| N.Y. atty. gen. files antitrust - Intel |
| Posted: JP @ Wed Nov 04, 2009 9:14 pm |
N.Y. attorney general files antitrust lawsuit against Intel
Cuomo alleges a 'systematic campaign' of illegal conduct
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against microprocessor maker Intel, alleging that the company engaged in a "systematic campaign" of illegal conduct to protect a monopoly.
Cuomo's lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for ...
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| Windows Virus in Linux via wine |
| Posted: coastie @ Mon Oct 26, 2009 2:43 pm |
I forget who, but some wiseguy stuck a link to site (www.vivilan.cn - not linkified so Google doesn't mark me as evil) on his Facebook wall, which reminded me of one reason I love Firefox (and Linux): security! See, the site is actually a redirect to another site, which is a redirect to another site which tries to show you a fake Windows interface telling you your computer has several viruses and ...
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| Red Hat Files New Brief in Software Patent Case |
| Posted: melloe @ Mon Oct 05, 2009 10:02 am |
Red Hat Files New Brief in Software Patent Case
Friday, 02 October 2009 05:58 Brian Proffitt
The fight against software patents got a big boost yesterday when one Linux company filed an amicus brief with the US Supreme Court urging it to uphold last year's Bilski vs. Doll decision in the Federal appeals court.
That vendor was Red Hat, which really comes as no surprise. With the veiled threa...
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| Linux and Digital Rights Management (DRM) |
| Posted: crouse @ Sat Sep 19, 2009 4:35 pm |
http://www.h-online.com/open/features/print/114008
Most personal computer owners find it convenient to be able to play various types of recreational media – Audio CDs, DVD and Blu-ray movies – on their machines. Even at work, multimedia video and audio presentations have their place. Over the years Windows users have come to expect that whatever the latest media format is, a Windows machi...
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| Microsoft Office faces patent suit jeopardizing sales? |
| Posted: julian516 @ Fri Sep 18, 2009 5:19 am |
This falls in the "truly bizarre" category. It seems that Microsoft has been hit with a patent infringement suit and a court decision may imperil further sales of Microsoft Office making any use of the xml format?? Given Microsoft's reputation for aggressive defense of real or imagined intellectual property this is stunning, if it holds. Here is a quote from the Juergen Haas blog of S...
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| Windows Vista 'less good,' Microsoft exec admits |
| Posted: JP @ Thu Sep 17, 2009 6:26 pm |
Windows Vista 'less good,' Microsoft exec admits
But Windows 7 -- that's a different matter ... it'll stand up to Apple's Mac, Google's Chrome OS
With Windows 7's launch looming, a company executive yesterday denigrated its predecessor, calling Vista a "less good product."
The comment won't surprise many analysts and users, who have condemned the 2007 operating system as bloated,...
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| Microsoft 'indoctrinates' Best Buy workers with anti-Linux ' |
| Posted: stonecarver @ Fri Sep 11, 2009 9:03 am |
From Daily Finance
Microsoft (MFST) is "indoctrinating" Best Buy (BBY) workers to sell its highly anticipated Windows 7 operating system using outright lies about the performance of open-source competitor Linux, according to Linux experts and at least one Best Buy employee who has seen the alleged Microsoft training slides.
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And a follow up story @ Daily Finance
Microsof...
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| Motorola's big Android bet kicks off |
| Posted: masinick @ Thu Sep 10, 2009 9:04 pm |
I have been watching for various Linux based phones, smartphones, PDAs, etc. for quite a long time now. When I got my first mobile phone, I was looking for a Linux phone, but the only ones I could find were way too expensive and clunky for what I wanted to do.
This year, with the WebOS, Palm's answer, Google Android, Google's Linux based smartphone OS system, the Moblin project, and what they ...
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| openSUSE Power Outage in Nuernberg Office |
| Posted: jada @ Wed Sep 02, 2009 9:48 pm |
From Sep 12 to Sep 13 we will have a power outage in the Nuernberg office.
Downtime is planned from 2009-09-11 20:00 CEST (18:00 UTC) until 2009-09-14 10:00 CEST (08:00 UTC). So it might become a long weekend especially for developers – but we plan to avoid restrictions for endusers during this downtime.
So far, the following services are affected by this downtime:
Build Service
Mailing li...
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